Earlier today i was tipped off to a leak of documents that has come from the Palestine government who has apparently been breached by anonymous hackers as part of a upcoming big release. The document leak appears to of been announced over at [Cyber Guerrilla](https://www.cyberguerrilla.org) and was posted in the earlier hours of today as a teaser release from a…
Month: April 2013
OrthoCare Medical Equipment notifies 93 patients of breach
Have I ever mentioned that I’m old, and I forget things? Thanks to Healthcare IT News for reminding me that I should have mentioned a recent breach involving OrthoCare Medical Equipment, LLC. I had posted it to DataLossDB.org, but forgot to post it here. On February 14, OrthoCare learned that a binder with 93 patients’ information…
19 Derbyshire police workers caught abusing force files
Nineteen members of staff at Derbyshire police have breached data protection rules in the last three years by accessing information they were not allowed to see. One officer searched the force database to find information logged about his relationship with an illegal immigrant. He resigned before misconduct proceedings could take place Read more from the…
UK: Royal Bolton Hospital notes found in street
The Bolton News reports that hospital notes with 25 patients’ names, age, medical history, specialist information, mobility, dietary requirement, hygiene, home circumstances and discharge plan were found in a street. The breach itself would be disturbing enough, but the citizen who found the documents experienced problems trying to report the breach – an issue to…
UK: Alzheimer’s Society data protection audit report – Executive summary March 2013
Curious about the scope and method of the ICO’s consensual audits for data protection? Take a look at this executive summary from a recently released audit of the Alzheimere’s Society.
UK Commonwealth Bank Site Hacked, Data Leaked
Tonight a hacker group using the handle @LatinHackTeamR have announced a leak of data from the commonwealth banks united kingdom branch (https://www.commbankuk.co.uk/). The announcement came about 2.30am Tuesday morning via twitter and the leak has been posted to anonpaste. > Commonwealth Bank of Australia DB #Leaked #LatinHackTeamReborn anonpaste.me/anonpaste2/ind… @cyber_war_news @ehackernews @thehackersblog — LatinHackTeam Reborn (@LatinHackTeamR) April 1, 2013…